903 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.

You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America...Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.